R.I.P. Special 1 TV?

By: Martin | August 19th, 2009

I think most of us probably suspected it when Setanta went out of business, but according to their Twitter page, Special 1 TV (a.k.a. I’m on Setanta Sports) (a.k.a. that little skit show with the Rooney and Mourinho puppets), have confirmed that they have not been approached by Sky, ESPN, or anyone else to continue making their weekly mini-show. If they don’t get picked up, they will presumably call it a day. The idea for the show was fairly stupid–a Jose Mourinho puppet, a Sven-Goran Eriksson puppet, and a Wayne Rooney puppet discuss the football news of the week. But the execution was oftentimes legitimately hilarious, and I, along with many others, made sure to catch it every week. The writing was funny and first-rate, and it’s a shame it didn’t get picked up by someone, as I can’t imagine the production costs were all that high.

Hopefully someone will realize what the world is missing and find a way to bring it back in some form. Until then, enjoy the best of clip package from last year, including the famous, gut-bustingly funny “Arshavin signing” bit with Mourinho and Wenger at about the 7:30 mark. Get me the tank.

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HuttoProudfoot

Ryan's right. Sad week. We should all lament the loss of creative voices in any field, the loss of special 1 tv is significant. Those dudes (and dudettes) produced some of the finest sports related satire in any medium. I remember watching Man U vs. Chelsea at the Central Pub here in NYC toward the end of April 2008. It was a very tense affair, but everyone, everyone, left of shouting at one another during halftime to watch the "I'm on Setanta Sports" segment, everyone laughed, everyone relaxed a little...it was just a little bit magical. I guess we can't depend on SKY to think progressively and creatively vis-a-vis the lighter side...C'mon ESPN!
Ryan

first World Soccer Daily, now this. Its been a sad week indeed.
Alexinho

Great depiction of the good ol' US of A, from a British perspective...
Matt

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
CSD

As much as I'll miss it, it should go out on a high note before it jumps the Special Shark.
Drabik

I'm sure if a petitions was made, then there would be more than enough signatures for sky to take notice. I wanna know how Dave has reacted to Ameobi's hattrick!!!
Kieran

We should get a petition going, send it to sky saying buy S1TV dammit!
did he dive drogba

no no no no gaffer come back , i am on my knees.
temptest

i will miss em esp wengers skype call
be champions
evaldo

-general rule of thumb when it comes to transfer rumors = if there are no quotes then it is total bs.

-more general rule of thumb= goal.com is a scandalous shitrag

-cesc may go to barca next summer, but there is no way a 30 million fee has been agreed. that is way too low

use this, it filters a lot of the shit out: http://www.rockynewsnow.info/
Sause

Not very happy about this. S1TV is an amazing skit and needs to come back
Rattlehead

I for one won't let it die without thousands of posts on its behalf. Bring back the special one!
evaldo

Balazs Dzsudzsak was an FM legend. that is all i can tell you about him
Kieran

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Damm that sucks